Americans also suck at gaming-related television, as many people who've sat through more than a few minutes of the meager offerings on G4, TechTV, etc. can attest. If we could get that right, it might be able to kick gaming fully into the mainstream.
I have one handy old app (which shall remain nameless) that recently informed me that I'm on day 1,200 of my 30 day trial period. It's just a battle of wills at this point.
Stores like Wall-Mart will ensure this law is enforced.
Walmart and its brethren will just do what they've been doing, and not supply anyone with the material in question at all. They don't sell anything they consider "objectionable." These stores are the very reason record companies have spent the last 10-20 years releasing censored versions of albums that remove all the bad words and disappoint anyone who receives them as gifts from clueless parents.
I'm still waiting for publishers to start releasing Walmart-friendly versions of M-rated games to Walmart. Imagine the guy from San Andreas refusing to get into any car unless he asks the driver nicely for permission to borrow it first.
After a lifetime of being everyone's "computer geek" freidn/relative and entertaining the occasional midnight phone call from people saying things like "Help me Rob, I just clicked on the Internet and my email says an instant error message!" I can finally direct some of that love to Microsoft.
Of course, MS probably won't have people install Firefox nearly as often as I do...
Dawn of Mana (PS2) Dirge of Cereberus-Final Fantasy VII (PS2) Final Fantasy XII (PS2) Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria (PS2) Final Fantasy V and VI Advance (GBA) Children of Mana (DS) Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS) Final Fantasy III (DS) Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP)
There was a gag software ad way back in "Space Quest IV" with the same idea.. (imagine the following read aloud in that awesome Gary Owens narrator voice)
Narrator: It's here at last! With a combination of SAI--Simulated Artificial Intelligence--and VRAI--Virtually-Real Artificial Intelligence--we at MaxThis! Software have created a simulated simulator experience that's unlike anything you've ever simulated playing before. With SimSim, you can create a simulated environment in which you can create any simulated environment you want!
I was a total sad fanboy of these books, and my school library had complete runs of a couple of series. One night after losing too many places I made myself a set of bookmarks, labelled 1-50 or so, and placed one in every "decision" page. This not only let me go back to the most recent whenever I "died," but after completion I'd go back and read all the other possible paths.
I have no idea why PayPal seems so hokey... Is it the name?
Apart from the usual barrage of reasons to not like paypal, they are hokey in exactly the same way as an AOL email. Anyone can get one, no technical or professional qualifications needed. It's impossible to seem in any way ahead of your competition with a system that a teenager can sign up for in ten minutes.
Star Trek Babies, in their junior year, Star Trek Babies, it's the final frontier! KIRK: When the ship looks kinda weird, and you want to get some kicks, Just close your eyes and make believe, you're with green alien chicks!
KIRK: I like adventure! SULU: I am so slim! CHEKOV: De nuclear wessels! MCCOY: He's dead, Baby Jim! UHURA: I listen to the radio! SCOTTY: I'm givin it all she's got! SPOCK: Is everything efficient here? EVERYONE: Yes, Nanny Spock!
Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek, Bay-ay-bieeeees! Woo-hoo-hooooo... (fadee out with red alert siren)
Now I can finally afford to replace my first-gen PS2 with all the disc read errors!
Actually, anyone really serious about picking up a PS2 nowadays need only hold out until the PS3 release, and the resulting flooding of the used PS2 market.
That is an excellent point, and one sure to make people on either side of the spectrum cringe. I'd mod you up, but I have no power here.
I'd be happiest in a word without ads, real or virtual, but I'm dubious that it'll be allowed to happen. I remember my dad, an early adopter of cable TV, being majorly pissed off decades ago when ads started to infiltrate the service he was already paying for. Nowadays in the age of QVC and all-night infomercials, people don't even notice that they're paying premiums for the privilege of watching those ads. I can only imagine how the modern Internet looks to the old-timers from the 1970s who were enjoying email and Usenet without spam or ads of any kind, but the average Joe doesn't remember things being any different.
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You win. And yes, it's 4.12.
Americans also suck at gaming-related television, as many people who've sat through more than a few minutes of the meager offerings on G4, TechTV, etc. can attest. If we could get that right, it might be able to kick gaming fully into the mainstream.
Hah! I will say that it's on an old, unnetworked Windows 98 lappy I shake the dust off of every so often.
I have one handy old app (which shall remain nameless) that recently informed me that I'm on day 1,200 of my 30 day trial period. It's just a battle of wills at this point.
Would this be a "word" to my mother, or more of a simple "word up?"
Walmart and its brethren will just do what they've been doing, and not supply anyone with the material in question at all. They don't sell anything they consider "objectionable." These stores are the very reason record companies have spent the last 10-20 years releasing censored versions of albums that remove all the bad words and disappoint anyone who receives them as gifts from clueless parents.
I'm still waiting for publishers to start releasing Walmart-friendly versions of M-rated games to Walmart. Imagine the guy from San Andreas refusing to get into any car unless he asks the driver nicely for permission to borrow it first.
....sorry.
I agree totally and unequivocally with your agreement and complaint against groupthink, and urge everyone else to do the same.
You'd have audience members complaining of motion sickness, like the first "Blair Witch Project" film and its relaince on the cast's handheld cameras.
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Of course, MS probably won't have people install Firefox nearly as often as I do...
The really sad part for the US is, how many Average Joe Sixpacks would read that headline and fail to see a problem with it?
I'd love to try it out, but I'm waiting for someone to write a Gamefaq. It's just no fun without an infinite money code...
Dawn of Mana (PS2)
Dirge of Cereberus-Final Fantasy VII (PS2)
Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria (PS2)
Final Fantasy V and VI Advance (GBA)
Children of Mana (DS)
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS)
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP)
I was a total sad fanboy of these books, and my school library had complete runs of a couple of series. One night after losing too many places I made myself a set of bookmarks, labelled 1-50 or so, and placed one in every "decision" page. This not only let me go back to the most recent whenever I "died," but after completion I'd go back and read all the other possible paths.
no tea
I don't know how to "witty reply."
>clever reply
I don't know how to "clever reply."
>lame reply
You make a lame, cliche-ridden Slashdot post, probably having something to do with Netcraft or "Star Wars."
There is an angry moderator here.
Apart from the usual barrage of reasons to not like paypal, they are hokey in exactly the same way as an AOL email. Anyone can get one, no technical or professional qualifications needed. It's impossible to seem in any way ahead of your competition with a system that a teenager can sign up for in ten minutes.
What a shame! I was looking forward to a DVR that would exist in a realm of brooding, gothic fantasy and inspire piles of new Hot Topic merchandise.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
Star Trek Babies, in their junior year,
Star Trek Babies, it's the final frontier!
KIRK: When the ship looks kinda weird, and you want to get some kicks,
Just close your eyes and make believe, you're with green alien chicks!
KIRK: I like adventure!
SULU: I am so slim!
CHEKOV: De nuclear wessels!
MCCOY: He's dead, Baby Jim!
UHURA: I listen to the radio!
SCOTTY: I'm givin it all she's got!
SPOCK: Is everything efficient here?
EVERYONE: Yes, Nanny Spock!
Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek,e out with red alert siren)
Bay-ay-bieeeees!
Woo-hoo-hooooo...
(fade
I don't think an aged Kevin Costner tenderly carrying Jeff Bezos away is quite the mental image I need today, thankyousomuch...
Actually, anyone really serious about picking up a PS2 nowadays need only hold out until the PS3 release, and the resulting flooding of the used PS2 market.
I'd be happiest in a word without ads, real or virtual, but I'm dubious that it'll be allowed to happen. I remember my dad, an early adopter of cable TV, being majorly pissed off decades ago when ads started to infiltrate the service he was already paying for. Nowadays in the age of QVC and all-night infomercials, people don't even notice that they're paying premiums for the privilege of watching those ads. I can only imagine how the modern Internet looks to the old-timers from the 1970s who were enjoying email and Usenet without spam or ads of any kind, but the average Joe doesn't remember things being any different.